Bug#553529: xscreensaver: Fake crash screensaver should not be enabled by default

2010-01-13 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Apparently the Debian maintainers feel that your inconvenience is a small price to pay to protect the functionally retarded from themselves. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#553529: xscreensaver: Fake crash screensaver should not be enabled by default

2010-01-13 Thread Andy Isaacson
I'm very disappointed that dist-upgrade broke my screensaver by deleting the bsod hack (it's the only one I use). Sure, it's fairly easy to fix by installing the xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod package, but it seems like pointless package proliferation to me. -andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Bug#553529: xscreensaver: Fake crash screensaver should not be enabled by default

2009-11-04 Thread Jose Luis Rivas
ject: Bug#553529: xscreensaver: Fake crash screensaver should not be enabled by default On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Another point of what a *package* is supposed to do, is that it is > supposed to be generally usable without having to vet every options of > every scr

Bug#553529: xscreensaver: Fake crash screensaver should not be enabled by default

2009-11-04 Thread Tormod Volden
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Another point of what a *package* is supposed to do, is that it is > supposed to be generally usable without having to vet every options of > every screen of the package.  That would defeat the point of using > packages and and distribution

Bug#553529: xscreensaver: Fake crash screensaver should not be enabled by default

2009-11-01 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 09:28:21 -0430 Jose Luis Rivas wrote: > > Plus, is the intended behavior, the package was made on that sense, > that's what the screensaver is supposed to do. So it's not a bug but a > feature! Just because I think the issue of what consistutes intended behaviours is an issue

Bug#553529: xscreensaver: Fake crash screensaver should not be enabled by default

2009-11-01 Thread Jose Luis Rivas
reassign 553529 xscreensaver-data-extra quit On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 04:05:10 + > "Jose Luis Rivas" wrote: > >> Severity 553529 wishlist >> Quit >> >> Haha. This is a problem between the chair and the keyboard, this is >> not a RC bug. ;-)

Bug#553529: xscreensaver: Fake crash screensaver should not be enabled by default

2009-10-31 Thread Jose Luis Rivas
screensaver should not be enabled by default Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.05-3 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss The fake crash screensaver causes users who don't know about it to panic and reboot the system, without necessarily hit other keys first, thereby potent

Bug#553529: xscreensaver: Fake crash screensaver should not be enabled by default

2009-10-31 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.05-3 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss The fake crash screensaver causes users who don't know about it to panic and reboot the system, without necessarily hit other keys first, thereby potentially causing data loss. It's really a bad ide